Vietnam, Cambodia

DH and I will visit Vietnam and Cambodia for 3 weeks, starting September 28 217. We will return October 17, 2017 just in time to celebrate Sero's 1st birthday. This one was also booked through Kras Vakanties and included 2 local flights. So we started in Hanoi, where we went to see the Ho Chi Minh complex and the one pillar Pagoda. We went on a cyclo tour through the old quarter of the city and the Hoan Kiem Lake and at night went to a water puppet show. Then we left for Ha Long Bay for a beautiful boattour along the caves (a.o. Sung Sot Cave) and the Tuan Chau pier. Next we took a local flight to Hoi An, a gorgeous little town on the coast with a city walk over the Japanese bridge, the Tan Ky house and the local market and made a tour by bike. We also booked an excursion to My Son Cham Sanctuary (a sort of small Angkor Wat in Cambodia) without a guide and returned to our hotel by boat, while having lunch on the boat.

Via the Hai Van Pass by buss (it rained on top) we arrived in Hue. Along the way we visited Lang Co Beach with those typical round fisher boats, Minh Mang Tomb and the Thien Mu pagoda and of course another museum. Next stop will be Ho Chi Minh City, where we arrived by plane. Here we got a city tour and saw the Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral and the outside of the Independence Palace. Also we made a boat tour along the Perfume River. 

Then we crossed the border to Cambodia (Moc Bai - Ba Vet border crossing), but first we visited the Cu Chi Tunnels at Ben Dinh. In Phnom Penh we did another city tour and visited the Genocide Museum and the Choeung Ek Killing Fields. In Battambang we again did another city tour per local tuk-tuk, but main attraction on this vacation has to be the visit to Angkor Wat in Siem Raep. Unfortunately DH Rob got ill, (migraine), so I went there alone with the rest of our group. Angkor Wat  is a beautiful temple complex built in the 9th century by the Khmer. The Bayon Temple  and Ta Prohm are the icons of these temples. Before we got home, we visited the Phare Circus, that transforms the lives of Cambodian youth.